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diff --git a/external-libs/pcre/NEWS b/external-libs/pcre/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000..26219749 --- /dev/null +++ b/external-libs/pcre/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +News about PCRE releases +------------------------ + +Release 4.5 01-Dec-03 +--------------------- + +Again mainly a bug-fix and tidying release, with only a couple of new features: + +1. It's possible now to compile PCRE so that it does not use recursive +function calls when matching. Instead it gets memory from the heap. This slows +things down, but may be necessary on systems with limited stacks. + +2. UTF-8 string checking has been tightened to reject overlong sequences and to +check that a starting offset points to the start of a character. Failure of the +latter returns a new error code: PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8_OFFSET. + +3. PCRE can now be compiled for systems that use EBCDIC code. + + +Release 4.4 21-Aug-03 +--------------------- + +This is mainly a bug-fix and tidying release. The only new feature is that PCRE +checks UTF-8 strings for validity by default. There is an option to suppress +this, just in case anybody wants that teeny extra bit of performance. + + +Releases 4.1 - 4.3 +------------------ + +Sorry, I forgot about updating the NEWS file for these releases. Please take a +look at ChangeLog. + + +Release 4.0 17-Feb-03 +--------------------- + +There have been a lot of changes for the 4.0 release, adding additional +functionality and mending bugs. Below is a list of the highlights of the new +functionality. For full details of these features, please consult the +documentation. For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. + +1. Support for Perl's \Q...\E escapes. + +2. "Possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's Java +package. They provide some syntactic sugar for simple cases of "atomic +grouping". + +3. Support for the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching position +is at the start point of the match. + +4. A new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl provides +with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done in PCRE +is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting pcre_callout to +its entry point. To get the function called, the regex must include (?C) at +appropriate points. + +5. Support for recursive calls to individual subpatterns. This makes it really +easy to get totally confused. + +6. Support for named subpatterns. The Python syntax (?P<name>...) is used to +name a group. + +7. Several extensions to UTF-8 support; it is now fairly complete. There is an +option for pcregrep to make it operate in UTF-8 mode. + +8. The single man page has been split into a number of separate man pages. +These also give rise to individual HTML pages which are put in a separate +directory. There is an index.html page that lists them all. Some hyperlinking +between the pages has been installed. + + +Release 3.5 15-Aug-01 +--------------------- + +1. The configuring system has been upgraded to use later versions of autoconf +and libtool. By default it builds both a shared and a static library if the OS +supports it. You can use --disable-shared or --disable-static on the configure +command if you want only one of them. + +2. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is +useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets +relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so +there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc. + +3. Upgrades to pcregrep: + (i) Added long-form option names like gnu grep. + (ii) Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase. + (iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories. + (iv) Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file. + +4. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure +script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix +systems, the value can be set in config.h. + +5. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an +absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and +likewise updated the man page. + +6. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed. +The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit. + + +Release 3.3 01-Aug-00 +--------------------- + +There is some support for UTF-8 character strings. This is incomplete and +experimental. The documentation describes what is and what is not implemented. +Otherwise, this is just a bug-fixing release. + + +Release 3.0 01-Feb-00 +--------------------- + +1. A "configure" script is now used to configure PCRE for Unix systems. It +builds a Makefile, a config.h file, and the pcre-config script. + +2. PCRE is built as a shared library by default. + +3. There is support for POSIX classes such as [:alpha:]. + +5. There is an experimental recursion feature. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSIONS BEFORE 2.00 + +Please note that there has been a change in the API such that a larger +ovector is required at matching time, to provide some additional workspace. +The new man page has details. This change was necessary in order to support +some of the new functionality in Perl 5.005. + + IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSION 2.00 + +Another (I hope this is the last!) change has been made to the API for the +pcre_compile() function. An additional argument has been added to make it +possible to pass over a pointer to character tables built in the current +locale by pcre_maketables(). To use the default tables, this new arguement +should be passed as NULL. + + IMPORTANT FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM VERSION 2.05 + +Yet another (and again I hope this really is the last) change has been made +to the API for the pcre_exec() function. An additional argument has been +added to make it possible to start the match other than at the start of the +subject string. This is important if there are lookbehinds. The new man +page has the details, but you just want to convert existing programs, all +you need to do is to stick in a new fifth argument to pcre_exec(), with a +value of zero. For example, change + + pcre_exec(pattern, extra, subject, length, options, ovec, ovecsize) +to + pcre_exec(pattern, extra, subject, length, 0, options, ovec, ovecsize) + +**** |